Tagged With freedom of speech

Today, YouTube clarified how it plans to handle videos that don't violate any of its policies but still contain offensive religious and supremacist content: Hide them and make sure they can't make any money.

Germany's parliament passed a law on Friday that forces social media sites to quickly take down illegal and slanderous content or face a fine of €50 million ($74.3 million). The new rule affects Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other sites with more than two million users.

On Wednesday, ProPublica published dozens of startling training documents reportedly used by Facebook to train moderators on hate speech. As the trove of slides and quizzes reveals, Facebook uses a warped, one-sided reasoning to balance policing hate speech against users' freedom of expression on the platform. This is perhaps best summarized by the above image from one of its training slideshows, wherein Facebook instructs moderators to protect "White Men," but not "Female Drivers" or "Black Children."

Voting largely along party lines, the Republican-controlled US House of Representatives approved new fines on Tuesday against lawmakers who use electronic devices to take pictures or broadcast from the chamber, prompting a barrage of flashes as Democrats snapped photos in defiance of the rules.

Former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo secretly ordered employees to create an algorithm to filter out abusive and hateful language during a company-sponsored Q&A with President Obama in 2015 according to a Buzzfeed report.